Ernie Isley Quotes
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What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.
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The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
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Cornish wrestling was very different from that in Devon - it was less brutal, as no kicking was allowed.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.
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Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poetry and the comedic trash talk of 'the dozens.'
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When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
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I have a lot in common with Lewis Carroll's Alice (my favorite female literary heroine, besides Becky Sharp). I've been sent on a journey to places even bleach can't reach.
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I write and do all my arrangements on my Mac. And um, I use Logic Pro, which is a great software program.
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Every form is a base for colour, every colour is the attribute of a form.
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The word 'cancer' carries with it enormous fear, fear for the future, fear for family.
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Do the bishops seriously imagine that legalising gay marriage will result in thousands of parties to heterosexual marriages suddenly deciding to get divorced so they can marry a person of the same sex?
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I've grown up with a piano in the house, and that's where I started to be able to learn things by ear. Guitar kind of happened, and I was using it just for writing at first. Then, I was writing so much that I began to realise that I knew how to play, and that's when I started getting nerdy about it.
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What counts for most people in investing is not how much they know, but rather how realistically they define what they don't know. 'The genius of Warren Buffett in 23 quotes' MarketWatch (19 August 2015)
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As many of you know, I come from San Francisco. We don't have a lot of farms there. Well, we do have one-it's a mushroom farm, so you know what that means.
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I don't think there was ever a moment when I was like, 'Yeah, I want to be a singer!' I guess it just happened. I performed a lot when I was younger and stuff, but I remember getting to the point where I thought I might have to get a normal job.
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There is nothing better than humor to keep a marriage going.
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There is only one day that you and I have to live for, and that's today. There is nothing we can do about yesterday except repent, and there may be no tomorrow. The thing for us to do when we arise from our beds as God gives us a new day, is to take whatever comes to our hands, and do it to the best of our ability.
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Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.
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A man in the house is worth two in the street.
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I hear it all the time in the street: 'It's the crisp bloke.'
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There are moments to indulge and enjoy, but I always know when it's time to go home and wash my knickers.
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Bad people...are in conflict with themselves; they desire one thing and will another, like the incontinent who choose harmful pleasures instead of what they themselves believe to be good.
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Don't believe everything you hear on the street.
